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...year-old general won't loosen his grip on power. "I haven't seen anything that shows he is willing to make any concessions on anything substantial,'' said Win Min, a Thailand-based author and Burma expert. The democracy protests, Burma's biggest political uprising in years, have done little to change the status...
...analyze matter: a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer (GCMS). Their challenge was to make the device - sometimes the size of a small car - light enough and sturdy enough to be sent into space. Pillinger always planned to look for terrestrial applications of the mini GCMS once their space research was done, and at Wellcome's request, Morgan began in 2005 to design a version that could detect TB. The device they have come up with requires little maintenance and should be much cheaper than full-sized GCMS models, which can cost millions of dollars...
Byford concedes that BBC swarms at news events can seem "incoherent and duplicative." Plans to fuse TV, radio and online newsrooms and cut up to 490 jobs "should have been done earlier," says Byford. "We're a multimedia broadcaster increasingly organizing around a multimedia platform." But whether or not these cuts deliver the benefits he envisages, the spectacle of the BBC targeting core services and preserving frothier output fuels concerns that it has lost its reason for being. Richard North, author of the 2007 book Scrap the BBC!, calls the broadcaster a "grotesque monopoly" and advocates its privatization. "Broadcasting...
Gupta's wife Nirmal Jindal, who teaches political science at the University of Delhi, says they also hope to show people who might fly in the future how it's done. "We want to orient them about aviation manners," she says. "People have money, but they do not know how to behave. We want to acquaint them with the cost of a plane, the safety aspects, how to treat the hostesses." Still, for many passengers, the experience is mainly about letting dreams take wing. The weathered Airbus is "beautiful to sit in," says local resident Anisha Khan, who recently took...
...senior-housing business has changed dramatically over the last seven or eight years," says David Schless, president of the American Senior Housing Association. Nearly half of retirement-community managers intend to at least upgrade their fitness centers this year or next, and a similar percentage said they had already done so in the previous two years, according to a survey by the International Council on Active Aging...